Lincoln City, Indiana, 2,116 students in 6 schools
North Spencer County School Corporation Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in North Spencer, measured against North Spencer's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.
The next three school mornings
Will North Spencer close tomorrow?
Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Lincoln City.
Ten winters of school mornings
North Spencer’s snow record
7.6inches of snow a winter
0.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.3with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in North Spencer: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.5Nov
1.1Dec
3.4Jan
1.8Feb
0.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
Biggest day 4.9 in on January 25, 2026
Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 16.9 in
6 in mornings 0 a winter
1 in mornings 1.9 a winter
Measured at a NOAA weather station 16.9 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.
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The Indiana rule
How Indiana counts a lost day
Indiana requires at least 180 student instructional days a school year.
Every school in North Spencer follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.
High
Heritage Hills High School
Middle
Heritage Hills Middle School
Elementary
Lincoln Trail Elementary School, Lamar
David Turnham Education Center, Dale
Nancy Hanks Elementary School, Ferdinand
Chrisney Elementary School, Chrisney
Questions
North Spencer snow day questions
About 7.6 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 16.9 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 0.9 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.3 with 4 inches or more.
4.9 inches on January 25, 2026, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 16.9 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2024 to 2025, with 16.9 inches.
It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Lincoln City through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against North Spencer’s own big snow morning: 3.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 16.9 miles away.
Indiana requires at least 180 student instructional days a school year.
Three school mornings, as far as the National Weather Service hourly forecast reaches. Weekends and breaks are skipped, so a Friday storm is read for Monday’s buses.
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0
The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.
